$20k/mo SaaS: From Losing a Business Partner to Shut Down

Watu is a shutdown staffing SaaS. Learn what happened!

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From Losing a Business Partner to Shutting Down a $20k/mo SaaS

Watu was a temporary staffing app founded by José Pablo Fernández and his business partner. The business was very sticky; once a company started using the app, it was very unlikely for them to leave. So what could have gone wrong!? Read our interview with Pablo below to know more.

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ARTICLE

Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience - Review & Key Lessons

I recently took Daniel Vassallo's well-known video course on how to build a Twitter audience. Here's my review as well as the key lessons I got from it. Let me know if you have any questions about it.

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